Music for Easter-1-B (Apr 12) Easter

Prelude:           Organ Symphony IV "Andante Cantabile": Widor
Processional Hymn: 266: The Strife Is O'er
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          551
Psalm:             (p 59) This is the day...
                   (after Second Reading) 551: Sequence
Acclamation:       (Easter-1) Christ our paschal lamb...
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         264: Alleluia Alleluia Give Thanks
                   (11) Messiah "O death...But thanks": Handel
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei          Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    263: That Easter Day With Joy Was Bright
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        258: Alleluia Alleluia Let The Holy Anthem Rise
Postlude:          Organ Symphony IV "Finale": Widor
                   (11) Messiah "Hallelujah": Handel

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper): Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, alleluia; itaque epulemur in azymis sinceritatis et veritatis, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia (Christ, our Pascal Lamb, has been sacrificed, alleluia; therefore, let us keep the feast by sharing the unleavened bread of uprightness and truth, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia).


Thank you to our musicians for their dedication this past week: Director (Ondine Young); Sopranos (Mary Bulkley, Virginia Cooke, Gina DeLucchi, Betty DeOrian [cantor], Linda Hiney, Mary Peters, Rosetta Solari); Altos (Grayson Braxton [cantor], Norma Hernandez, Susan Hernandez [cantor], Roddy Raikow, Sarah Roske, Allison Villarante, Marianne Wolf); Tenors (Jordan Fong [cantor], Bernie Juat); Basses (Richard Mix [cantor], Guillermo Otero), Guest Instrumentalists (Sally Blaker, Ann Callaway, David Ryther, William Skeen, Jonathan Davis).


Franz Schubert (1797-1828) composed his "Deutsche Messe (D 872)" in 1826, setting devotional poetry by Johann Philip Neumann (1774-1849), professor of Physics at the Vienna Polytechnical Institute; the collaboration resulted in an Austrian folk-style Mass practical for use by that student congregation. It consists of eight songs, titled to denote the points during the Mass at which they are to be sung. Richard Proulx adaptated the Mass-Songs to the texts of the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Agnus Dei; the heavy-stock pew-cards will be used throughout the Easter Season.


Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937), born in Lyon France, lived in Paris and worked as St Sulpice organist (1870-1934) and Conservatory professor (organ 1890-, composition 1896-); wrote operas and songs, orchestral and chamber music; famed for his ten organ symphonies which followed the orchestral symphony multi-movement plan and explored the many tonal possibilities of the St Sulpice organ (finished 1863 by Cavaille-Coll, mechanically advanced, largest of the time, 5 manuals, 102 stops). Organ Symphony IV in F (opus 13 no 4, 1887) is in six movements: the third is our Prelude and the sixth is our Postlude.

Online resources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1gNswfr7Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsPk2g2Eakg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ch-lIKCsW8